Dewey’s concept of experience for inquiry-based landscape drawing during field studies

Autor: Alexander Tillmann, Jürgen Wunderlich, Volker Albrecht
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 41:383-402
ISSN: 1466-1845
0309-8265
DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2017.1331206
Popis: The epistemological and educational philosophy of John Dewey is used as a theoretical basis to analyze processes of knowledge construction during geographical field studies. The experience of landscape drawing as a method of inquiry and a starting point for research-based learning is empirically evaluated. The basic drawing skills are acquired through an online drawing course. The main aim is to foster the self-organized acquisition of relevant skills to explore, describe and reflect on subjective mental and linguistic concepts in relation to scientific landscape models. The results, based on an evaluation of the students’ drawings, their responses to questionnaires and a review of students’ “reflective notes”, indicate that the approach motivated students to learn about the processes which formed the landscape and that the students perceived the method of inquiry after Dewey as a way to overcome cognitive dissonance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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